Cast from him—dumb!

I cannot cry in the jungle's deep—

Is it not time for the Tomb—and Sleep?

O Death, strike with thy dart!

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[Pg 47]

EVOCATION

(Nikko, Japan, 1905)

Nikko, Japan, 1905

Dim thro' the mist and cryptomeria

Booms the temple bell,

Down from the tomb of Iêyasü

Yearning, as a knell.

Down from the tomb where many an æon

Silently has knelt;

Many a pilgrimage of millions—

Still about it felt.

Still, for I see them gather ghostly

Now, as the numb sound

Floats, an unearthly necromancy,

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